Does San Francisco’s campaign finance law allow soapbox activists and vanity candidates to take advantage of public funding when they don’t have a chance of winning elections? Read More
The City remains at risk of being sued over its public financing program after a proposal to make it comply with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling was rejected Tuesday.Despite facing a legal bill that would be footed by taxpayers, the Board of Supervisors failed to pass legislation that would prevent San Francisco from being sued over its public financing program, which provides matching funds to candidates running for supervisor or mayor. Read More
Supervisor Sean Elsbernd asked his colleague Jane Kim a worthwhile question at Monday’s Rules Committee meeting: “What is more important to [our] communities? Having dollars available for services? Or standing on a principle that has been deemed unconstitutional?”
Kim, for the record, prefers the latter, but we’ll get back to that. Read More
Shortly after becoming speaker, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, had that deer-in-the-headlights look when asked to name a single program he would eliminate: “Don’t think I have one off the top of my head.” Thankfully, the House GOP came up with an answer at the end of January, voting to zero out taxpayer financing of presidential campaigns. Read More
